Call for paper

Workshop 1: Building Physics

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

• Building Energy Modeling
• Operational energy and the building’s thermal mass
• Moisture transport and safety
• Air-tightness and air movement
• Climate change and climate adaptation of buildings
• Indoor climate
• Sustainable building envelope systems
• Smart facades
• Building materials
• Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• Passive, low energy, Zero and Plus-energy buildings, Zero emission buildings
• Building Management Systems
• Modelling and Simulation,
• Sensors and Controls
• Energy Standards
• Buildings-to-Grid Integration

Workshop 2:    Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning & Refrigeration (HVAC & R)

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

• Individual HVAC systems
• HVAC on a district network
• Heat pump HVAC systems
• Heat sources for a heat pump and sinks
• Heating, Generation and Distribution, Central heating
• Hot water, steam heat, hot air, solar-powered heat sources
• Energy sources types of fuel: Solid fuels, Liquid fuels, Natural gas
• District heating system
• Local geothermal heat
• Water heating. Hydronic radiant floor heating systems, Hydronic systems
• Heat pump
• Refrigerants
• Reversible heat pumps
• Vapor-compression refrigeration system (VCRS)
• Heat pump for heat or preheat water
• Standards SEER, ESEER
• The design of the evaporator and condenser heat exchangers
• The design of a heat pump and its efficiency
• Gas compressors
• Compression heat pumps
• Absorption heat pumps
• Seasonal thermal energy storage and interseasonal heat transfer
• Ground-coupled heat exchanger
• Software GAEA, AWADUKT Thermo, EnergyPlus, L-EWTSim, WKM, and others
• Air-source heat pumps (ASHP), Air–air heat pump, Air–water heat pump, combination air-source heat pumps
• Protection from noise pollution caused by heat pump outdoor units
• Thermal storage solutions in conjunction with ASHPs
• ASHPs with passive solar heating
• Heat pumps with backup systems
• ground source heat pump (GSHP)
• direct exchange (DX) ground source heat pump
• Liquid-to-air heat pump (water-to-air)
• Heating energy, Methods of controlling building heating
• Air conditioning, Free cooling, Packaged systems and split systems
• Ventilation. Mechanical/forced and natural types, hybrid ventilation
• Natural ventilation strategies. Wind driven ventilation, Buoyancy-driven ventilation
• Ventilation energy recovery
• Economizers
• Ventilation rate standards
• Building Performance Simulation (BPS)
• Building Automation Systems (BAS)
• Design of naturally ventilated buildings
• Mechanical ventilation strategies. Demand-controlled ventilation (DCV), Personalized ventilation

Workshop 3: Renewable Energy

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

PV Systems for achieving global sustainable development goals

• Design and Installation of PV Systems
• Operation and Maintenance of PV Systems
• Monitoring, system failure analysis, PV system reliability.
• Electric and thermal performance, safety aspects, integrated mounting structures
• PV products for buildings.
• PV in vehicles;
• PV in transport infrastructure
• Grid and Energy System Integration
• Grid management
• Technologies and simulation for short-term and seasonal storage

PV Strategies and Policies

• Economics and competitiveness of PV,
• market assessment and investment
• PV in integrated energy system, mass storage,
• PV for achieving global sustainable development goals,
• PV in climate change mitigation

Solar Thermal Energy

• Solar Thermal Power Plants
• Solar Thermal Collectors
• Solar resource assessment, measurements and monitoring

Hydropower

• Small hydro for local community and industry,
• Small hydro for contribute to distributed generation in a regional electricity grid
• Small hydro projects for isolated areas
• Hydropower and the Environment

Biomass

• Wood and Wood Waste
• Waste-to-Energy (MSW)
• Landfill Gas and Biogas
• Biomass & the Environment

Biofuels

• Ethanol and Biodiesel for Transportation Facilities
• Biofuels and the Environment

Wind

• Horizontal-axis turbines
• Vertical-axis turbines
• Small wind turbines
• Wind power plants
• Wind Energy and the Environment

Geothermal

Direct use and district heating systems
Geothermal power plants

• Dry steam plants
• Flash steam plants
• Binary cycle power plants

Wave power, Tidal power

Workshop 4:  Energy Management

We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:

• Smart Energy Grids
• Emerging networked control systems
• Energy management in a multi-building setup via distributed stochastic optimization
• Energy strategies in the transport sector;
• Energy procurement management;
• Management of energy distribution and use;
• Modern technologies of energy storage.
• Building and Energy Management Systems